MELUS AWARDS for DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION to ETHNIC STUDIES 1974 Robert E. Spiller 1979 Nicolas Kanellos 1982 Katherine Newman 1983 Brom Weber 1985 Blyden Jackson 1986 A. LaVonne Ruoff 1987 John M. Reilly 1988 Charles Nichols 1989 Mitsuye Yamada 1990 Paul Lauter 1991 Jean Fagan Yellin 1992 Charles Nilon 1993 Daniel Walden 1994 Barbara Christian 1995 Michael S. Harper and Jules Chametzky 1996 Eric Sundquist and Nellie McKay 1997 Amy Ling 1998 Helen Jaskoski 1999 Raymund Paredes 2000 Helen Barolini 2003 Werner Sollors 2004 Joe Skerrett 2005 Tey Diana Rebolledo 2007 Amritjit Singh, Thadious Davis 2008 John Lowe